The X99 – All’s Well That’s Haswell

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Here to round off your feast of enticing chip banter, are the chunky charts I pledged for dessert.  The data was selected from Anandtech  for the application benchmarks  and Guru3d for the game benchmarks with a view to establishing the pattern of progress within Intel’s increasingly shrewd grand plan.  It may prove useful to some of you one day, in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances

No point in spouting any further florid phraseology when a succulent pic n mic of percentages will see you out.  Above we can note the transition from Penryn to Nehlam architecture returned some noteworthy gains, at least for video encoding and onerous rendering tasks.

Relative to the QX9770 and Q9550, the i7-965 emerged with advantages of 17% and 26% in the x264 single threaded pass, 48% and 59% in the multi threaded pass and 34 and 44% in the Cinebench R10 benchmark.

When stepping up to the socket against the i7-965, a Nehalem King and the i5-670, a Westmere courtier, we see the i7-980x command leads of 71% and 5.2% in the x264 single threaded pass, 215% and 47.4% in the multi-threaded pass and of 157% and 33% in the R10 render test.  The reason for the Gulftown’s astronomical advantage over its “Clarksfield” cousin stems from the fact that all Westmere based mainstream CPUs were limited to two cores and slower than many quad core Nehalem chips, despite a lesser lust for watts.

Compared to the i7-2600k and 980x, the i7-3960x exhibited 12% and 19% gains in the x264 single threaded pass, 47% and 15% in the multi threaded pass and 53% and 19% in the Cinebench 11.5 benchmark.  Yes, I’m just changing the odd word now, its the figures that matter, consume them neat and with relish!

When set against the i7-3770k and 3960x, the i7-4960x mustered 20% and 6%% increases in the x264 single threaded pass, 59% and 6% in the multi threaded pass and 58% and 5% in the Cinebench 11.5 benchmark.  Can you flesh out a pattern yet?  Those extreme chips would appear to be adhering to the law of diminishing returns.

In a spot of sparring with the i7-4790k and 4960x, the i7-5960x yeilded 13% and 2.5% losses in the low quality handbrake test 57% and 16% gains in the high quality and bonuses of 49% and 22%  in the Cinebench R15 benchmark. The first time an heir to the thrown suffered a loss, though his two subsequent wins were solid.  Onto the gaming.

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